Recaps

Luo Bin uncovered the tomb’s history and fought Yuan Tianshu as the mountain’s divided souls and puppets closed in around him. Yuan Tianshu revealed Luo Bin’s connection to Gu Yiren and carried him away, while a familiar figure appeared at the cliff.

• Luo Bin discovered that Yuan Tianshu’s tomb was held by a generations-old suppression, then tried to restore the coffin’s seal and summon Yuan Tianshu’s trapped soul.
• Yuan Tianshu escaped his confinement, and Mao Yousan possessed Luo Bin before helping him confront the awakened figure in the tomb.
• Luo Bin pushed Yuan Tianshu’s Ascended Corpse from the stone platform and took the Good Corpse Core, then collapsed as Gu Yiren carried him away.
• Gu Yiren followed apparitions into the valley, while the wounded Luo Bin later found her unconscious in a house beside a dried female corpse.
• Luo Bin learned that Gu Yiren’s soul had split into fragments and witnessed the history of her failed effort to summon her senior brother, Yuan Tianshu’s betrayal, and Yuan Yinxin’s interference.
• Yuan Tianshu told Luo Bin that one fragment of Gu Yiren’s soul had been reincarnated as him and that he had arranged Luo Bin’s rebirth to help defeat his traitorous disciple.
• Yuan Tianshu restrained Luo Bin and Gu Yiren, brought them to a cliff, and offered to take Luo Bin to Wooden Puppet Village or send him over the edge.
• Yuan Tianshu clapped, and a familiar figure stepped onto the stone platform and called Luo Bin “Binzi.”

Luo Bin escaped Heart-Rending Hell, confronted Yuan Tianshu, and destroyed the flower lanterns, but the Tomb Guardian led him into the tomb after recognizing the Moon-Shaped Stone. Luo Bin hid from Yuan Tianshu and prepared to escape while trying to understand how Yuan Tianshu had controlled him.

• Yuan Tianshu manipulated Luo Bin into entering Wooden Puppet Village and taking the lanterns and Corpse Cores, while Luo Bin kept the Moon-Shaped Stone and fell into the mountain pit.
• Shangguan Xingyue neared her destination in the Tibetan Lands as Kong An gathered support for Black City Monastery and Xu Lu and Bai Xian traveled toward the region.
• Luo Bin raised poisonous Gu in the pit, discovered the entrance to Heart-Rending Hell, and entered, where the prison beings and Chief Seat Deity attacked him.
• Luo Bin escaped through the mountain crevice, reached He Gongde’s platform, took the Cloth Doll, and watched the puppets tear He Gongde apart.
• Yuan Tianshu confronted Luo Bin with the prison beings and Gu worms, but escaped into a puppet and used the White Flower Lantern against the Chief Seat Deity.
• Luo Bin destroyed the lanterns and expelled the Corpse Core Yuan Tianshu had forced him to swallow, then the Tomb Guardian appeared and knelt after pulling the Moon-Shaped Stone from Luo Bin’s chest.
• The Tomb Guardian led Luo Bin into the tomb and asked him to find a soul fragment and seal the gate, while Yuan Tianshu searched for him without success.
• Luo Bin emerged from his hiding place on the Tomb Passage ceiling after Yuan Tianshu left and decided to wait until nightfall to escape using the prison beings.

Luo Bin and Luo Xianshen faced Yuan Tianshu’s schemes as the tomb’s seals weakened and the valley erupted into battles over Gu Yiren, the Dao Corpses, and the Spirit Mediums. The stretch ended with Yuan Yinxin empowering Luo Xianshen as the Dao Corpses closed in, while Luo Xianshen felt an unfamiliar lightning art stirring within him.

• Luo Bin used the Gu-Breaking Ocarina Tune and his gu worms to free himself from Yuan Tianshu’s control, then learned to control the Tomb Guardian with refined thread gu.
• Luo Xianshen defeated Yi Yi’s Spirit Mediums, rescued infants from their ghost cultivation, and later joined Yuan Yinxin in searching for Xu Jin and the Dao Corpses.
• Yuan Tianshu’s Yin Spirit attacked Bai Wei, but Luo Bin arrived and manipulated Yuan Tianshu’s String Puppet body before Gu Yiren revealed that Gu Shanhong controlled her body.
• Gu Yiren deceived Luo Bin and Qin Tianqing, then lured Yuan Tianshu into the tomb and trapped his Yin Spirit with the Hanging Tortoise Mirror and Crane-Bone Nails.
• Gu Yiren demanded that Luo Bin turn Yuan Tianshu’s body into a talisman as the Tomb-Guarding Yong threatened to emerge, but she also used a Moon-Shaped Stone to suppress Luo Bin’s allies and attack him.
• Luo Xianshen met Yuan Yinxin amid the conflict between Bai Wei, Zhou Sanming, and the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds, and Yuan Yinxin was wounded while concealing his hostility.
• Yuan Yinxin shielded Luo Xianshen from Bai Wei and helped repel the Spirit Mediums and Dao Corpses, then used Great Thunder Strength to empower Luo Xianshen as an unfamiliar lightning art stirred in him.

Luo Xianshen and Luo Bin confronted Mountain Cabinet’s buried threats as the tomb’s seals began to fail. Luo Bin emerged as the Miao King of Three Miao Village, learned of the White Miao’s plight, and discovered that the Black Miao threat remained close.

• Luo Xianshen exposed Yuan Yinxin as the murderer of the mountain’s victims and struck him and two other practitioners with heavenly thunder, while Mao Yousan and Luo Xianshen later went to rescue Luo Bin from the tomb.
• A six-thread golden silkworm gu seized control of Luo Bin and dragged him into the tomb, where he and Yuan Tianshu encountered a sealed Corpse-Liberation Immortal and the Miao King’s corpse.
• Luo Xianshen helped hold the tomb gate shut as the Corpse-Liberation Immortal pressed against it, while Qin Tianqing learned that he was Qin Tianji and received the Heavenly Mechanism Jade Slip.
• The Corpse-Liberation Immortal pursued Luo Bin through the tomb and into a deserted Miao village, where Third Master Hu possessed him and the villagers hailed him as their Miao King.
• Luo Bin learned that the Black Miao had besieged the White Miao and agreed to help reunite their king’s soul with his body, while Luo Xianshen carved the jade slip for Qin Tianqing.
• Mao Yousan found that more Corpse-Liberation Immortals were sealed behind the tomb door and prepared to send someone inside, while Luo Bin rested and began preparations for the White Miao ritual.
• Luo Bin followed Miao Xi toward the Nuo God Temple, realized the Black Miao still threatened the village, and tried to protect her when Miao Qi attacked.
• A Flesh Snake Gu emerged from Miao Xi’s throat and animated her corpse, and Luo Bin pursued it as elders revealed that Black Miao Gu-Bound People waited beyond the village defenses.